Matthew B. Jones Jim Regetz National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) University of California Santa Barbara NCEAS Synthesis Institute June 21, 2013 Morpho Tutorial

Morpho Wizard to create metadata

Morpho highlights Create metadata in EML format Manage data in EML packages Save, publish, and share data Search for data Multi-language –English, Spanish, Chinese, French, Portuguese, Japanese Export data and metadata Cross-platform, and open source Morpho

Morpho Tutorial Goals –Install and understand Morpho –Understand basics of metadata editing –Save data to Metacat –Access control, and other more advanced features –Understand relationship of Metacat to DataONE network

Step 1: Download and install

Step 2. Create profile Profile: a way to allow multiple users to use the same Morpho install without colliding –Each profile is associated with one KNB/Metacat account –Each profile has a ‘prefix’ used to create data set identifiers E.g., the prefix ‘jones’ is used to create IDs of the form ‘jones.1.1’

Step 3. Set Metacat to use

Step 4: Manage data Login Find the data set uploaded earlier Open it and edit it as instructed

Questions? Contact: –Matt Jones –Jim Regetz Links – – –